Dear Parents, Staff and Students

Last Monday, Mrs Brumley and her tireless helpers staged a wonderful whole school Music Concert themed ‘Caring for Our World’ as part of The Arts curriculum for the year. We thank our audience, including Fr. Hilary, parents, grandparents and friends who enjoyed the event. We also thank Mrs Brumley for completing her term contract at St Clare’s. She is now enjoying a well-deserved overseas holiday and we wish her the very best.

Work Experience

This week we will welcome three high school students to our school for work experience. They will be working in Prep, Year 1 and with Mrs Jenkins (HPE) for their work experience. Please welcome Kate, Lola and Ben.

Montefalco Landscaping Project

We thank Martin Metcalfe for the time and effort he put into beautifying the riverbank near our Montefalco Centre. I have received many comments from students, staff and parents expressing their delight at the beautiful landscape now revealed.

P & F Meeting

Our next P & F meeting is in the first week back in Term 3 – Monday, 15th July in the boardroom at 7pm. All are welcome.

Read To Me Day

Last Tuesday, our students in Prep to Year 3 enjoyed the annual 'Read to Me Day'. It was a beautiful sunny day with our students enjoying the experience of being read to by our supportive local businesses in Tully. This year’s theme was ‘We Are Australian’ with many of our students and teaching staff taking up the option to dress up. Thank you to parents who helped with supervision for the day as well as the many businesses who participated and provided a great learning opportunity for our students.

Catholic Education Week
28 July – 3 August 2019

 Catholic Education Week will be celebrated across Queensland from 28 July – 3 August 2019.

This annual event is held to promote the special ethos of Catholic schools and to highlight the great things that take place in Catholic schools every day.  

The theme for this year’s celebrations is:  Many Voices. One Spirit.

Catholic education strives to make a difference in the lives of those in our schools and in the wider community by challenging young people to live out the message of Jesus and to reach their full potential as compassionate, contributing, life-giving members of society.

 There are 306 Catholic schools in Queensland that educate around 149,000 students and employ more than 20,000 teachers and staff, and most will celebrate Catholic Education Week in some way.

Our school is planning a number of activities during the week and we hope you are able to join in the celebrations with us. Information about Catholic Education Week activities will follow early in Term 3.

I thank you for your ongoing support and look forward to seeing you during Catholic Education Week 2019.

Thank you all for your support throughout our school community this term. We wish everyone a blessed, safe and enjoyable school break and look forward to seeing you all on Monday, 15^th July to commence another term filled with many enjoyable learning opportunities.

May the Grace of God be with you.

Kath Kennedy

Peninsula Track & Field Trials

Eve Zonta, Jaia Richtsfeld, Elise Kleinhans, Mia Uitenweerde, Kassidy Dore, Brydie O’Kane, Maya Jensen, Layla Jenkins, Aiden Vipiana, Jackson Solien and Hannah Morris represented the Cassowary Coast Sporting District at the Peninsula Track & Field Trials at Barlow Park on Sunday 16th and Monday 17^th   July.  We are so very proud of everyone's personal achievements and the fantastic effort put into their individual events.
Many of our students were in the top 8 of their events and our placegetters were; 
Jackson - 1st Shot-put
Maya - 2nd High Jump 
Layla - 2nd 1500m & 3rd 800m
Jackson & Layla met qualifying distances/times and have been invited to join the Peninsula team to go to the State Track & Field Championships at Brisbane in August.

Peninsula Softball Trials

Alyssa Williamson, Danielle Kerr, Eve Zonta and Meg Chappel represented the Cassowary Coast Sporting District at the Peninsula 10-12yr Girls’ Softball trials at Cairns last Friday.  The girls enjoyed the day and played excellent softball.  Congratulations to Danielle, Eve and Meg who were selected to join the Peninsula Softball team to play at the State Championships at Cairns in August.  Congratulations girls!

State Championships – Vic Jensen Rugby League 10-11yrs

Peter Solien will be travelling to Brisbane on the holidays, 6^th-10^th July, to represent the Peninsula region at the Vic Jensen Rugby League State Championships for 10 & 11yrs boys.  Congratulations Peter!  We wish you all the best!

State Cross Country Championships

Kassidy Dore and Layla Jenkins will compete at the State Cross Country Championships at Toowoomba in Week 1 of next term.  We wish both girls all the best!

This term Yr 6 students, Lacey and Jarrod, and Yr 5 Students, Emily and Maya have enjoyed reading 6 new book titles in preparation for the FNQ Readers Cup.  These students enjoyed getting together with Mrs Crema every week to discuss the books that they had read, and share their love of reading.  Students from Tully to Thursday Island came together at Redlynch State College to participate in the FNQ Readers Cup.  The students grouped together in 'huddles' to answer quiz questions about each book, and enjoyed answering spot questions between each round.  It was a lot of fun and a fabulous opportunity to celebrate our readers.
Great work Lacey, Jarrod, Emily and Maya!

On Thursday 13^th June, the captains were invited to go to Tully State High School for a leadership day. We were welcomed by Year 7 and 9 students and teachers.  Our first activity was getting to know students from other schools, which was great.  We completed activities that taught us how to be leaders and made us step out of our comfort zone, so we know what leaders are and what the role of a leader is.  We got to eat delicious sausages on bread for lunch.   Our favourite task was doing the obstacle course because we were blindfolded and had to learn how to communicate well.  We had a great day. 

By Elise Kleinhans, Chace Crema, Eliza Smith and Jaia Richtsfeld

SEL Awards Term 2 Week 8

BACK ROW:  Riley Emmi, Luke Sorbello, Kara Scuderi, Jayden Colombini, Ella Metcalfe

FRONT ROW: Evie Miller, Basil Dore, Eddie Brunello, Brody La Spina, Chloe Lizzio, Maddie Jenkins, Amelia McEntee

SEL Awards Term 2 Week 9

BACK ROW:  Marty Johnston, Samuel Dore, Tori Condon, Lucy Chilcott, Drew Wilkinson, Lacey Condon

FRONT ROW: Dishant Kumar, Zor Singh, Jack McAvoy, Aiden Morris, Jaxon Lizzio, Madeline Lizzio

Term 2  TUCKSHOP ROSTER -

Friday 28/6/19
Coordinator - R Lizzio  Helpers - A Mc Namara J Burns
Bakers - L Uitenweerde N Evans (Cupcakes)

2019 OUTSTANDING SCHOOL FEES 

Would you kindly forward payment as soon as possible so payment of school accounts can be made before the holidays.

Please contact the Principal if you have any issues of concerns.    

Thank you to all families who have made their payment or are paying by direct debit or bpay. Please continue with payments over the holidays so your school fee balance will be paid by the end of term 2 or your account may go into credit ready for term 3 school fees.

WINTER UNIFORM

On the colder mornings students may wear the following as per our Uniform policy:

• Plain NAVY jumper, zip style or navy pullover. NAVY track pants or black leggings.

The plain blue jumpers that some students have are also acceptable. 

Please note that coloured jumpers or any with logos/pictures should NOT be worn.

School Calendar

Presented by:    Wk 10 - Yr 1   

All parents and friends are invited to attend.

Raise Magazine will be sent home later in the week.

This is a very short survey on our new Raise magazine. We are offering the chance to win a $100 Coles/Myer gift voucher for responding.